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… Nationalists are stunned by the announcement of seven points according to which Gen. J.B.M. Hertzog is …

… Bergh leaves for the Netherlands to raise the grievances of the Burghers against the Cape government at the States …

… South African Institute of Race Relations. (1990). Race Relations Survey 1989/90 , Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, p. 200. … The South African Defence Force (SADF) admits the existence of a secret unit called the Civil Co-operation Bureau (CCB), …

… Prime Minister J.C. Smuts announces the intention of the government to introduce new legislation to replace the …

… railway line between Waldau and Karibib. With the outbreak of …

… under Lord Chelmsford pitch their camp on the slopes of Isandhlawana, where Zulu warriors attack them two days l …

… British territory for the second time, when conditions of surrender at Blaauberg (11 days previously), is conf …

… Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) (1999). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.2 , Pretoria: Vista. | … Qoboza, well-known anti-apartheid journalist and editor of The World newspaper, dies in Johannesburg on his fiftieth …

… members are executed after being convicted on the charge of urban ter …

… object her consulting rooms in Pietermaritzburg.  Four of t …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997 , … Under an amendment to the Suppression of Communism Act, approved without objection, it ceases to be …

… WWII: North Africa. North Africa is used as a base of operations for Operation Frantic – 130 Flying Fortresses …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … Foreign Minister ‘Pik’ Botha meets Lesotho’s Minister of Foreign Affairs. They agree on the need to curb …

… Tunisia achieves (limited) self-government with the return of Habib Bourguiba. Muhammad al-Amin ibn Muhammad, the Pasha …

… The executive council of the ZAR (Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek) decides that in …

… former Drum magazine editor and chief executive officer of Urban Brew studios, dies in Johannesburg while un …

… The British government, in a change of policy, opens its doors to consultations with ANC leaders …

… comes to grief at the Falkland Islands and seventeen of the thirty-eight crewmembers drow …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … in the Government Gazette providing for the detention of offenders for up to three years in rehabil …

… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, … Molaudzi, Rose Kota and Darkmore Tshabalala, members of the ANC and SACP, are gunned down on a train in Soweto. …

… Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) (1999). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.2 , Pretoria: Vista. … called Pixley ka Isaka Seme), politician and co-founder of the African National Congress, dies in Johannesbur …

… Black population is prepared to suffer the consequences of san …

… by South Africa’s two biggest trade unions, the Congress of …

… War 2: Gen. French relieves Kimberley after a siege of 123 days.  The town has suffered only 134 casualties among …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 8, p. 556 … Regulations are proclaimed for the layout of a third Voortrekker town, the first in Natal, named after …

… between church and state, when the Archbishop of Cape Town, the Most Rev. W …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … After joint talks with Ian Smith of Rhodesia, the Prime Minister B.J. Vorster commits South …

… Hillbrow, Johannesburg. The mines are seen by a member of the S …

… South African Institute of Race Relations. (1989). Race Relations Survey 1988/89 , Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, p. 221 … The Natal Mercury reports that Mr Jan Steyn, a director of Hillview Investments, announced that the company was to …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 7, p. 228 … Robert Moffat, of the London Missionary Society, arrives with his wife at …